"August 2025 will go down as a weird month in the Braves' cream-of-the-disappointment-crop season. It was the first month played in essentially total irrelevance, as the Braves were still hanging out there with decent playoff odds in early July. It was also their first winning month of 2025. 16-13 isn't spectacular, but if a team manages to go 16-13 over and over, they win 89 games"
"The month was basically a stars-and-scrubs-esque thing, too, with a quartet of Jurickson Profar, Michael Harris II, Matt Olson, and Drake Baldwin being the only guys doing anything offensively, and a mix of Hurston Waldrep, Raisel Iglesias, and then Joey Wentz and Bryce Elder not getting obliterated by homers despite not pitching all that well helping out on the pitching side."
"Which brings us to September. The Braves are clearly done trying to win games. They're not doing any fun experiments, but they're also not trying to win games. One only has to see Hunter Stratton relieve Raisel Iglesias, who breezed through the ninth, to hold down a tenth-inning lead to figure that much. Cal Quantrill somehow survived a roster shuffle and Chris Sale's return, which is very yeesh."
August 2025 was an anomalous month for the Braves: a 16-13 record that marked their first winning month of 2025 despite a .320 July that was the worst monthly winning percentage since April 2016. Underlying metrics showed the Braves finished 13th in position player fWAR and 22nd in pitching fWAR, implying their record overperformed WAR-based expectations. Offense relied heavily on Jurickson Profar, Michael Harris II, Matt Olson, and Drake Baldwin, while pitchers Hurston Waldrep, Raisel Iglesias, Joey Wentz, and Bryce Elder avoided homers enough to keep results respectable. Entering September the team has largely stopped prioritizing wins; rotations and bullpen usage reflect lowered competitive urgency. Projections estimate a 13-12 record going forward.
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